Last Updated May 1, 2018 7:19 PM EDT The lobbyist who helped arrange embattled Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt's pricey government trip to Morocco last year now has a $40,000-a-month contract to lobby for the Moroccan government, according to the Washington Post.The Post reports the trip cost $100,000 -- far more than the $40,000 the EPA initially claimed it cost -- and, citing four individuals familiar with the preparations for the trip, said lobbyist and longtime Pruitt friend Richard Smotkin was intricately involved in the planning of the December 2017 trip. According to federal records first reported by the Post, Smotkin was contracted to lobby for the Moroccan government in April, in an agreement retroactive to January 1 of this year that pays $40,000 a month for 12 months, or $480,000 in total.Smotkin registered as a foreign agent on April 13, with the "Embassy of Morocco" listed as the foreign principal he will be working … [Read more...] about Lobbyist helped arrange Scott Pruitt Morocco trip, now earns $40,000 from Moroccan government: Report